New York Times - Digital Subscription Discounts For Individuals

Visit NYT's website for information about discounted rates for individual subscription access to the New York Times - Digital. Within that site, for specific details regarding discounts applicable to SU students and faculty, visit the subscriptions/subscribe now link pertinent to "Education Rates."

Although subject to change, as of October 2016 - New York Times is reporting these "Education Rate" discounts for Basic Digital Access (includes unlimited access to NYTimes.com and the NY Times smartphone and tablet apps):

Students - $4 delivers four weeks of online access. Subscription will continue until you cancel.

Faculty - $5 for initial four weeks, then $7.50 every four weeks thereafter. Subscription will continue until you cancel.

[rates are discounted from NYT's regular, non-education basic digital rate of four weeks at $15]

When evaluating personal digital subscription options, regarding archival access to NY Times newspaper back issue articles, which date back to 1851 - Syracuse University students, staff and faculty should take note those archival back issues are available (without need for personal subscription) via the SU Libraries subscription to the databases Proquest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times, and via ProQuest.

Quick Links to Databases Containing New York Times articles

These databases offer access to major article content (and sometimes page images) from the current and historical New York Times newspaper - NOT the content presently delivered via the NYT web site (at times identical articles may appear in both places).

One stop search portal for multiple news and newspaper databases: AltPressWatch, Canadian Newsstream, Ethnic Newswatch, Gannett Newsstand, GenderWatch, US Newsstream and International Newsstream. ProQuest Historical Newspapers are also included, with access to the complete seventy year run of the Chicago Defender and full page scans reaching back to the founding 19th century issues for the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.

1985 - current; also indexing of NYT articles dates back to 1980. Use the database's advanced search or its publications search to limit results to New York Times content. InfoTrac Newsstand is a collection of news sources harvested from well over 1,000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspaper titles as well as leading titles from around the world. Also contains newswire copy, radio and television news transcripts and embedded news audio and video files from programming such as the Today Show, 60 Minutes, National Public Radio, New York Times, Washington Post, FOX, Bloomberg Television and video files from numerous local U.S. TV news station websites. Infotrac Newsstand also includes an embedded "listen" feature for audio narration of content, and an online tool enabling automatic translation of English language text into several other major world languages.

Access more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790, together with extensive current and historical U.S. state and federal statutes, published court decisions and regulations. Registering for a free ID and password within the interface is recommended for those looking to take advantage of personalization features such as alerts, saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

1980-current. New York Times article retrieval is available here via keyword searching only; Factiva does not support browsing thru all major articles in a given issue(s) of the New York Times. No page images are available - only plain article text from the major articles appearing in each issue of the NYT.

1857 - 1909. Helpful for researchers seeking full page images from some of the earliest issues of the NYT.

Browsing To Specific NYT Back Issues

News databases offer advanced search features where search results can be limited so only New York Times results display. Proquest databases - offer user friendly browsing to a back issue(s) of the New York Times newspaper for a specific publication date(s). See screen shots below. Click on a screen shot to enter each database.

Once inside ProQuest News & Newspapers database - if wishing to "browse" to specific back issues, instead of searching keywords, click on the publications link to browse to a specifically dated NYT newspaper back issue(s). 1980-current

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New York Times on Microfilm

Note - There is a one to two month time lag between date of publication and availability via digital microfilm. For access to article text from those very recent newspaper back issues, consult other newspaper databases SU Libraries offers, such as ProQuest News & Newspapers.

2008 - within 1 to 2 months of current date (online): Proquest Digital Microfilmoffers online access to full page image scans of its newspaper content (including photos, charts, advertising, etc. often excluded from article coverage available in other databases).

1857 - 2011 (offline microfilm): Extensive historical back issue article coverage of the New York Times print newspaper (not the NYT digital news) is also available from SU Libraries via traditional microfilm. For a date(s) of interest, request desired reels falling under Microfilm # 96, using the "request this item" link embedded on the SU Libraries Classic Catalog item record for New York Times (Microform). Microfilm is housed at the Library's storage facility. Viewer/reader/printer machines (including the ability to create digital copies of pages) are available on Bird Library's 3rd floor. Print copies of recent issues are retained at Bird Library's 2nd Floor - Current Periodicals area, until microfilm arrives for those dates.